Normally I am all over this, ready and raring to go, but I'm still pretty burned out on lots of things.
April is National Poetry Month. There is a challenge to write a poem a day over at Writer's Digest. Robert Lee Brewer posts a prompt every day and chooses his favorite submission at the end. It's pretty helpful to try to write a poem a day. I've done it before, but I've been lacking this month. I believe I might start tonight!
There is a program running in May called Story A Day. Basically, you write a short story every day. They are starting to gear up with writing exercises and collecting story ideas now. I tried this last year and while I only managed to get a couple stories finished, I had partials for several others that I was able to flesh out and use later.
June brings the first Camp NaNo of the year. Write a novel in idyllic camp settings surrounded by mosquitoes and bears. :)
Get your writing muscles in gear and write write write!
Showing posts with label story a day. Show all posts
Showing posts with label story a day. Show all posts
Wednesday, April 4, 2012
Monday, May 2, 2011
Inspire: A Story A Day Keeps the Crazy Away
Yesterday was the first day in the Story A Day Challenge. The challenge? To write a story a day, complete and done, every day in May. It's like a short story version of NaNoWriMo.
Yesterday I finished off a flash fiction piece. Today, I haven't written yet since I am driving myself into work. It's only the second day and I feel I might be overwhelmed. But then I remind myself, I've done it before. I've written thousands of words per day when I wrote for NaNoWriMo. This month, however, I don't want to push everything aside to write every day. So I may end up with a lot of flash fiction. That's fine to me, as they are short little snippets that I can always expand on in the future.
Why am I going to do Story A Day? Because I need goals. I want to write some short stories that don't always have to evolve into a longer one. Every time I get an idea, I think wow, I could turn that into a novel! It doesn't leave me anything short and sweet to submit to a magazine or publication. It doesn't give me other ideas to explore when my longer pieces have me at my wits end.
Will I be writing a story a day? Probably not. I plan on workday pieces and maybe one longer piece on the weekends. I'm hoping this will keep me from sitting on the couch watching tv every night. (Netflix is evil).
I'm excited to get to try out new ideas, new ways of writing, and new points of views. This month I'm going to experiment and not kick myself if I don't write something good.
Welcome to May!
Yesterday I finished off a flash fiction piece. Today, I haven't written yet since I am driving myself into work. It's only the second day and I feel I might be overwhelmed. But then I remind myself, I've done it before. I've written thousands of words per day when I wrote for NaNoWriMo. This month, however, I don't want to push everything aside to write every day. So I may end up with a lot of flash fiction. That's fine to me, as they are short little snippets that I can always expand on in the future.
Why am I going to do Story A Day? Because I need goals. I want to write some short stories that don't always have to evolve into a longer one. Every time I get an idea, I think wow, I could turn that into a novel! It doesn't leave me anything short and sweet to submit to a magazine or publication. It doesn't give me other ideas to explore when my longer pieces have me at my wits end.
Will I be writing a story a day? Probably not. I plan on workday pieces and maybe one longer piece on the weekends. I'm hoping this will keep me from sitting on the couch watching tv every night. (Netflix is evil).
I'm excited to get to try out new ideas, new ways of writing, and new points of views. This month I'm going to experiment and not kick myself if I don't write something good.
Welcome to May!
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